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Will Ben Shapiro and Milo Yiannopoulos Debate Over Trump?
Milo Yiannopoulos keeps getting a question on his “Dangerous Faggot” tour of American university campuses: When is he going to debate his enemy and former Breitbart News colleague Ben Shapiro? The debate idea originally surfaced in May, after the “alt-right” darling Yiannopoulos challenged Shapiro to an argument on his Facebook page. “I’ve challenged Ben Shapiro…
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Trump Adviser Reed Cordish
EDITOR’S NOTE: On January 18, the Forward published a story describing a number of allegations made in a lawsuit against The Cordish Companies. Our story relied on information from a Daily Beast article. The Daily Beast has removed its story and apologized. The Forward has removed its story and also apologizes.
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BREAKING: Bomb Threats Called Into at Least 32 JCCs Around the Country
Updated to add context, tweets and reflecting total number of targeted JCCs. At least 32 Jewish community centers nationwide received bomb threats on Wednesday, with police responding to calls from locations in Florida, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Arizona and New Jersey, among others. “Bomb threats being reported at JCC’s in ME, MA, NY, CT,…
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Jewish Republicans Hope for Face Time With Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump at Inauguration
As exciting as watching the presidential inauguration with hundreds of thousands of other Trump supporters gathered in the National Mall may be, true political players are looking beyond the swearing in, the inaugural speech and the parade to the White House. For them, its all about inaugural balls, pre- and post-inauguration dinners and private receptions….
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5 Ways Stephen Miller Grew Up To Be Trump’s Inauguration Speechwriter — and Right-Wing Ideologue
At 31, Stephen Miller has reached a political stature few have matched – he is drafting president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration speech, to be delivered Friday. But the Santa Monica schoolmates of Trump’s top adviser were hardly surprised that the Jewish kid who insisted on standing and placing his hand on his heart during the pledge…
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Inspired by Ancient Practice, Rabbi Leads Interfaith Inauguration Day Fast
Jews fast on Yom Kippur, the annual day of atonement — but not only then. The tradition includes age-old and modern instances of fasts called to plead for rain, and one still on the calendar that mourns the assassination of a righteous government official about 2,500 years ago. Rabbi Burt Visotzky of the Jewish Theological…
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How Barack Obama Won Over Jewish Voters — While Irking Pro-Israel Establishment
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Fraught record on issues of race and anti-Semitism? Check. Much-hyped meeting to get Benjamin Netanyahu’s hechsher? Check. Stirring speech at AIPAC to quiet the naysayers? Check. Jewish validators galore? Check. Administration top-loaded with Jewish staffers? Check. Welcome to Inauguration Day 2009. President-elect Barack Obama walked into the White House eight years ago…
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How Trump’s Inauguration Preachers Bring ‘Hebrew Roots’ to the White House
Donald Trump has enlisted a diverse lineup of six clergy to pray him into office at his upcoming inauguration ceremony. Three draw on Jewish ritual objects and ideas in their practices, like Torah and prayer shawls — but only one clergy member is a Jewish rabbi. The other two, praying alongside Rabbi Marvin Hier, are…
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Will ‘Stiff’ Treasury Pick Steve Mnuchin Make It Through Confirmation?
Steve Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Treasury Department, might be headed for some trouble at his Thursday confirmation hearing. According to gossip from the transition team, Mnuchin came off as “uneven and stiff” in prep sessions, leading handlers to bring in extra help ahead of the Senate appearance. Those unnamed sources, speaking…
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Police Finger Masseur in Killing of Israeli Gay Nightclub Pioneer
A week after gay nightclub operator Savyon Zabar was found strangled in his Upper West Side apartment, prosecutors have charged his massage therapist Daqyan King for second-degree murder in connection with the death. Zabar’s death apparently came after a sexual encounter gone awry, with sources conflicting over how King described the event to police. DNAInfo…
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After 20 Years, Orthodox Feminists Claim Big Victories — but Still Face Challenges
The past two decades have witnessed a small revolution in the religious leadership roles being taken by Orthodox Jewish women. It is an arc easily traced back to when Blu Greenberg and a small group of like-minded women convened the first International Conference on Orthodoxy and Feminism. That 1997 conference, which attracted many more people…
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